Women's ice hockey Bundesliga 2017/18

This article deals with the 2017/18 season of the Austrian women's ice hockey league, for the season of the German women's ice hockey league see women's ice hockey league 2017/18 .

The 2017/18 season of the Austrian women's ice hockey leagues represents the second-highest league competition in Austrian women's ice hockey. Teams from Croatia and Hungary take part across countries - they can also become DEBL champions . For the Austrian state championship, an additional ranking is kept for the participating Austrian teams.

DEBL

	Women's ice hockey Bundesliga
	◄ previous	Season 2017/18	next ►
Master:	State champion: EHV Sabers Vienna DEBL champion: Obuda Hockey Academy
↑ EWHL   | • DEBL | ↓ DEBL 2

Participating teams

Nine teams from three countries competed in the first Bundesliga. All five Austrian teams from last season took part, as did the Croatian team from KHL Grič Zagreb . There were three teams from the Hungarian capital: the defending champions from KMH Budapest II, the team from UTE Marilyn Budapest moved to MAC Budapest , and the team from the Obuda Hockey Academy joined them .

Gipsy Girls Villach Devils Graz Kitzbühel Kufstein Highlanders Caps Flyers IceCats Linz Marilyn Budapest KMH Budapest II Obuda Hockey Academy KHL Grič Zagreb

Map of all team locations for the 2017/18 season ( ) or the syndicates ( & )

team	country	Previous year placement	Previous year's league
KMH Budapest II		1	DEBL
Syndicate Highlanders II / Junior Capitals Flyers		2	DEBL
Spielgemeinschaft Kitzbühel / Kufstein		3	DEBL
DHC IceCats Linz		4th	DEBL
MAC Marilyn Budapest		5	DEBL
Gipsy Girls Villach		6th	DEBL
KHL Grič Zagreb		7th	DEBL
DEC Devils Graz		8th	DEBL
Obuda Hockey Academy		-	New

mode

• Basic round: A simple round-trip round is played
• Final tournament: The best-placed team in the basic round against fourth, and second against third. The winning teams play for 1st place, the losers for 3rd place.

table

Various DEBL games were not played and not criminally verified, so that individual teams played up to three fewer games.

space	society	Games	S.	S2	N1	N	Gates	Points
1.	KMH Budapest II	15th	13	1	0	1	66:12	41
2.	Obuda Hockey Academy	16	11	1	1	3	82:30	36
3.	MAC Marilyn Budapest	16	10	1	0	5	54:31	32
4th	SPG Kitzbühel / Kufstein	16	9	0	2	5	52:34	29
5.	SPG Caps Flyers / Highlanders	16	8th	1	0	7th	52:42	26th
6th	Gipsy Girls Villach	15th	6th	0	1	8th	34:54	19th
7th	KHL Grič Zagreb	13	5	0	0	8th	43:55	15th
8th.	DEC Devils Graz	16	2	0	1	13	32:76	7th
9.	DHC Ice Cats Linz	15th	0	1	0	14th	09:90	2

Final tournament

The DEBL final tournament took place on the weekend of March 3rd and 4th, 2018 in the Sportpark Kitzbühel .

Semifinals

March 3, 2018 11:00 a.m.

Obuda Hockey Academy Hanna Pintér (6) Petra Pavuk (3) Andrea Kiss (1)

12: 0 (4: 0, 6: 0, 2: 0) game report

MAC Budapest

Sports park, Kitzbühel

March 3, 2018 2 p.m.

KMH Budapest II

3: 1 (1: 0, 0: 0, 2: 1)

SpG Kitzbühel / Kufstein Dandlberger

Sports park, Kitzbühel

3rd place match

March 4, 2018 10:00 a.m.

MAC Budapest

2: 3 (0: 2, 1: 1, 1: 0)

SpG Kitzbühel / Kufstein Dandlberger Salvenmoser

Sports park, Kitzbühel

final

March 4, 2018 1:00 p.m.

KMH Budapest II

0: 1 n.V. (0: 0, 0: 0, 0: 0, 0: 1)

Obuda Hockey Academy

Sports park, Kitzbühel

The Obuda Hockey Academy thus won the DEBL title when it participated for the first time.

State Championship

The 2017/18 national championship was held for the first time in the best-of-five mode. The three best Austrian teams from the EWHL and the best Austrian team from DEBL were qualified as participants.

The two best Austrian EWHL teams contested the final in a best-of-five series, the third best Austrian EWHL team played a best-of-three series against the best Austrian team from DEBL for third place.

final

March 10, 2018 5:05 p.m.

EHV Sabers Vienna A. Hanser (15:43) A. Trummer (26:24) V. Hummel (59:14)

3: 1 (1: 0, 1: 0, 1: 1) game report

DEC Salzburg Eagles C. Tucker (53:46)

Albert-Schultz-Halle 1, Vienna Spectators: 100

March 11, 2018 3:55 pm

EHV Sabers Wien A. Meixner (4:33) T. Schafzahl (17:21) A. Matzka (26:39) T. Schafzahl (30:17) L. Bowman (59:05) A. Meixner (59:36 )

6: 3 (2: 0, 2: 2, 2: 1) game report

DEC Salzburg Eagles E. Verworner (35:35) A. Fazokas (39:41) H. Behounek (46:03)

Albert-Schultz-Halle 3, Vienna Spectators: 150

March 17, 2018 4:15 p.m.

DEC Salzburg Eagles C. Tucker (20:28) S. Volgger (25:43)

2: 3 (0: 1, 2: 0, 0: 2) game report

EHV Sabers Vienna T. Schafzahl (12:00) T. Schafzahl (47:10) V. Hummerl (48:18)

Ice arena , Salzburg spectators: 100

Further game dates would have been March 18 and 24.

Series for third place

In the best-of-three series for the bronze medal in the state championship, the KSV Neuberg Highlanders met their own farm team, the SPG Caps Flyers / Highlanders, because the SpG Kitzbühel / Kufstein did not participate.

March 11, 2018 3:15 p.m.

KSV Neuberg Highlanders J. Stott (3) K. McDonell (3) J. Pesendorfer (2) S. Smith (1)

9: 0 (2: 0, 3: 0, 4: 0) game report

SPG Caps Flyers / Highlanders

Kapfenberg spectators: 36

March 18, 2018 2:25 pm

SPG Caps Flyers / Highlanders

0: 4 (0: 2, 0: 1, 0: 1) game report

KSV Neuberg Highlanders J. Stott (1) K. McDonell (1) J. Pesendorfer (1) S. Kaltenegger (1)

Albert-Schultz-Halle 3, Vienna Spectators: 45

DEBL 2

	Women's ice hockey Bundesliga
	◄ previous	Season 2017/18	next ►
Master:	Champion DEBL 2: DEHC Red Angels Innsbruck
↑↑ EWHL   | ↑ DEBL   | • DEBL 2

Participating teams

The following changes will be made to the participating teams in the preseason: HDK Maribor - since the 2014/15 season in DEBL or DEBL2 - no longer competes. The Wildcats Lustenau, who dare to make the leap from the Vorarlberg women's ice hockey league to the Bundesliga, are new participants. The Salzburg Eagles II and the Ice Cats Linz II form a game community in 2017/18. Thus, the season is contested with 5 Austrian teams.

Sabers Juniors Ice Cats Linz II Dragons Klagenfurt Salzburg Eagles II Red Angels Innsbruck Wildcats Lustenau

Map of all team locations for the 2017/18 season

team	country	Previous year's placement	Previous year's league
Red Angels Innsbruck		1	DEBL 2
EHV Sabers Vienna Juniors		2	DEBL 2
DEC Dragons Klagenfurt		3	DEBL 2
DHC IceCats Linz II		4th	DEBL 2
DEC Salzburg Eagles II		6th	DEBL 2
EHC Wildcats Lustenau		1	VEHL, ladies

mode

• Basic round: One and a half rounds are played back and forth.
• Play Off: Will be played as a return leg. In the event of a tie, the goal difference decides. If this is the same, there is a 5-minute extension ("Sudden Victory Overtime") in which the team may only use three field players and one goalkeeper. If no goal is scored, the series winner will be determined in a penalty shootout according to IIHF rules.
  • In the championship series, the best and second-placed teams from the regular season play.
  • Third and fourth placed teams from the regular season play in the series for bronze.

table

As of January 9, 2018

space	society	Games	S.	S2	N1	N	Gates	Points
1.	Red Angels Innsbruck	12	10	1	0	1	66:15	32
2.	DEC Dragons Klagenfurt	11	6th	1	3	1	42:16	23
3.	EHV Sabers Juniors	12	2	2	2	6th	21:36	12
4th	EHC Wildcats Lustenau	12	2	2	1	7th	22:51	11
5.	SPG Eagles II / Ice Cats II	11	2	1	1	7th	19:52	9

final

In the final, the DEC Dragons Klagenfurt prevailed with two wins against the Red Angels Innsbruck. The Wildcats Lustenau reached third place with two successes against the EHV Sabers Wien Juniors.

	series	Game 1	Game 2
EHV Sabers Juniors - EHC Lustenau Wildcats	0: 2	2: 3	1: 2 n.p.
DEC Dragons Klagenfurt - Red Angels Innsbruck	2-0	1-0	3-0

Web links

• Women's ice hockey Bundesliga 2017/18 at hockeyarchives.info (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} http://www.eishockey.at/?proxy=redaktion/PDF/OeEHV_Informationen/DurchfuehrungsbestUNGEN/171020_Durchfuehrungsbest_DEBL_2017_18.pdf
2. ↑ SPG Kitzbühel / Kufstein wins bronze in the final tournament. March 5, 2018, accessed January 21, 2019 . 
3. ^ State championship finals 1 and 2. In: eishockey.at. Retrieved January 18, 2019 . 
4. ↑ ÖSM - host mode ( Memento from January 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.eishockey.at/?proxy=redaktion/PDF/OeEHV_Informationen/Durchfuehrungsbestektiven/171020_Durchfuehrungsbest_DEBL_II_2017_18.pdf